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Not very often. I do like cologne, and have a respectable collection, but just find it overpowering.

What's your favourite woodwind instrument?

Trumpet

My apologies. I didn't see the word 'woodwind'. I like saxophones.

What is your favourite month, if you have one?

March (my birthday).

Do you prefer beef or lamb? Or pork?





I can't resist doing a list of my favourite Dostoevsky characters:

1. Alyosha Karamazov
2. Prince Myshkin
3. Pavel Smerdyakov
4. Marie, the "fallen woman" Myshkin befriends in Switzerland.
5. Father Zossima
6. Fyodor Karamazov
7. Ivan Shatov (Devils)
8. Stinking Lizaveta (Brothers Karamazov) - "Reeking" in Garnett's translation.

Beef, then pork. I can't eat lamb.

My favourite month is Octember (late Oct - November)

What was the first chapter book you recall reading?

A terribly traumatic book about a boy who loses a treasured pet.

What's your favourite work by TS Eliot?

J Alfred Prufrock

I was always stressed by The Waste Land for sensory reasons. It was too vivid for me!

What is your favourite language, by sound?

French. Although I can't understand the language at all as spoken (there's never a clear enough demarcation between individual words - the language is more legato than staccato, which I can't handle.) I can read French with near native competence, though.

The Waste Land changed my life, although I too find it troubling for my own reasons; I associate with a particularly nasty psychologist who did me a great deal of harm in 2015-16. The psychologist herself was brutish and uncultured; she'd probably barely heard of TS Eliot, like most British graduates today. The association is entirely incidental.

What's your favourite symphony?

Rachmaninoff Symphony 1

Gee, I've never met any brutish or uncultured people before ... I'm sorry that happened for you and that it left a lasting association.

I'm the same with French. I can read and write it because I can take my time and use visuals. Listening and speaking are much more difficult for me.

Do you believe in magic?

For me, it's Shostakovich's tenth.

The woman in question was terrible but taught me, quite inadvertently, some valuable lessons about life - chiefly about whom one should(n't) trust.

To be honest, I can barely understand spoken English; whenever I watch films or TV shows, I have to have the subtitles on. It can't be down to my hearing, which is otherwise perfectly good.

It depends on what you mean. I don't believe in the power of witchcraft.

Same question.

I was thinking of the song "Do You Believe in Magic?", so that's what I wrote. I don't believe in witchcraft either. I don't believe in magicians with rabbits in hats. I do believe there could be (highlight "could" be) other unexplained phenomena. Just because science can't prove something at this point in time, doesn't mean it can't happen. I'm not even sure which examples I'm imagining, but I tend to be open minded about energy.

Do you have any of your childhood toys or keepsakes?

I discovered the fun of cartomancy. So I guess so.

And nope no childhood toys left for me sadly.

Same q

I don't believe so, but I grew out of that sort of thing quite quickly.

What was your favourite subject at school?

Lunch

Same q

Literature, Philosophy (Ethics and Epistemology), Trigonometry

What was your least favourite subject?

Math

Would you like a card reading from me?

You gave me a card reading when I was on holiday, by PM. It was good so I'd like to keep it. Thank you, though!

Would you like to learn a sport?